Documentation
Everything you need to set up, understand, and run DockNeighbor — from your first sensor to a fully watched boat.
DockNeighbor watches your boat — an anchor alarm that alerts your people if you drag, a bilge alarm that reports the second water rises, Away Mode to flag theft, and battery and shore-power monitoring around the clock — with small battery-powered sensors that report through a DockNeighbor Station at the marina or aboard. The app shows the same boat wherever you are.
Start here
New to DockNeighbor? These pages take you from an empty account to a watched boat.
Quick start
Create the account, add the boat, add a station if you need one, scan in the sensors, choose who gets told.
How it connects
One path, every time: sensors reach a station by radio, the station reaches the cloud, the cloud reaches you.
Hardware setup
Where each sensor goes on the boat, and how it behaves once it is there.
Using the app
A tour of the app’s main views and the everyday workflows you’ll actually use.
Watch & protect
The alarms DockNeighbor is built around — where the boat is, whether it moved, and the water that shouldn’t be there.
Anchor alarm
The two-ring drag watch: free on every plan, aboard and from the cloud.
Location & security
Where the position comes from, Away Mode, and sharing your location.
Bilge & flood alarms
A sealed battery sensor at the low point that sleeps for years and reports the second it matters.
Water control & safety
On a city-water hookup: why every valve open carries a hard limit, and the automatic shutoff on top.
Core concepts
How the rest fits together — alerts, history, and sharing.
Your account
Help
Stuck, curious, or want to pitch in?
Not sure where DockNeighbor fits your life?
See how boaters at a slip, liveaboards, boats in seasonal storage, shared boats, and small charter fleets each put it to work.